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Polling shows solid growth in support of legal abortion
But the Data Download team looked closer at the numbers and we noticed another trend: a hardening of views.
June 16, 2019, 9:00 AM EDT
By Dante Chinni

Abortion is always a tense issue in American politics, but this spring it has become a major topic of discussion after several states – Alabama, Georgia, Missouri – tightened restrictions around the procedure. And, judging by the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, those new laws and the conversation around them may be shifting and hardening attitudes on the issue as 2020 approaches.

A look at the long-term numbers shows solid growth in the number of Americans who say the procedure should be legal or legal most of the time. Overall, the number of Americans saying that has climbed seven points since 2008, to 56 percent in the latest poll from 49 percent in September of 2008.

But the consistency of the movement is more remarkable. The percentage of men saying abortion should be legal all or most of the time has climbed two points in that time. Among women it has climbed 11 points. It’s climbed 13 points among Democrats and four points among Republicans.

In a country where growing divisions have become the main uniting principle, that kind of unidirectional movement is noteworthy.

But the Data Download team looked closer at the numbers and we noticed another trend: a hardening of views.

The poll asks a question on abortion that walks respondents through a list of options: “Which comes closest to your view on abortion: Abortion should always be legal, should be legal most of the time, should be made illegal except in cases of rape incest and to save the mother’s life, or abortion should be made illegal without any exceptions.”

In the current poll, 34 percent of Americans say they want abortion to always be legal. And that number represents an all-time high in the poll, a three-point climb from the 31 percent who held that view in March of 2018 and a nine-point jump from the 25 percent that held that view in 2008.

But there was also movement at the other end of the abortion continuum.

more:
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/polling-shows-solid-growth-support-legal-abortion-n1018001




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